FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10/29/12
WUWT-TV to debut on November 14th to counter Al Gore’s “Dirty Weather Telethon” on November 14th and 15th starting at 8PM EST (5PM PST)
Al Gore is forming another 24 hour media event on November 14th, focusing on “dirty weather”, which you can read about here. It is yet another example of what has been called “Tabloid Climatology”.
Gore’s program is another transparent attempt to link climate and weather, and to make people fearful of common weather events that we’ve seen all throughout history. WUWT hosted a 24 hour event last year, thanks to the talents of our contributing cartoonist, Josh. You can review that here.
Last year during his “24 Hours of Climate Reality”, Mr. Gore created a video called “Climate 101” in which he purported to show a laboratory experiment showing the warming effects of CO2. Unfortunately it was discovered that Mr. Gore fabricated the experimental results using video post production techniques. You can read about it and see the evidence here:
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Due to Mr. Gore broadcasting fabricated and impossible science experiments, and then failing to correct the video even when glaringly obvious falsifications were pointed out, and partly due to WUWT’s founder Anthony Watts recent interview (and backlash) on PBS Newshour, a donor has stepped forward and offered to equip WUWT for professional Live TV over the Internet and has purchased a complete web enabled TV studio setup for use this year, seen here:
http://www.newtek.com/products/tricaster-40.html
It includes two cameras, live video over net input, and live graphics/slideshow input.
It has been tested and has succeeded a 24 hour live web broadcast burn in period. When in production, the WUWT-TV web channel will have all of the elements of a professional TV production.
During the event, WUWT-TV will be able to conduct live video interviews via Skype online video, plus will feature simultaneous PowerPoint presentations run in high quality HD to go with the live interview, while the guest narrates. These can be full screen or split screen depending on the setting.
PowerPoint presentations will be pre-loaded into the system, and to facilitate remote control, WUWT has engineered a remote ‘clicker’ that allows guest presenters to control the presentation from their end, using a web page with a forward and back button on it.
WUWT-TV has invited a number of individuals to give presentations, here is the list so far.
SCHEDULED TO APPEAR:
Andrew Montford (Author of The Hockey Stick Illusion)
Richard Lindzen (Alfred P. Sloan professor of Meteorology, MIT)
Marc Morano (Climate Depot)
John Coleman (Founder of the Weather Channel, now at KUSI-TV)
Chris Horner (Senior Fellow, Center for Energy and Environment, CEI)
Steve McIntyre (editor of ClimateAudit.org)
Dr. Ross McKitrick (University of Guelph)
John Christy (Alabama State climatologist, co author of UAH dataset)
Joe D’Aleo (WeatherBell)
Joe Bastardi (Weatherbell)
Senator Jim Inhofe
Bob Tisdale (author of Who Turned on The Heat?)
Dr. Ryan Maue (Weatherbell)
Burt Rutan, (Engineer and Aviation Pioneer)
Dr. Sebastian Lüning (co-author of Die kalte Sonne)
Harold Ambler (Author of Don’t Sell Your Coat)
Donna LaFramboise (Author of The Delinquent Teenager)
Pat Michaels (former State climatologist of Virgina, fellow of the Cato institute)
Pete Garcia (Producer of the movie The Boy Who Cried Warming)
Christopher Monckton (SPPI)
Invited but still undecided or have not returned RSVP:
Judith Curry (may appear by pre-recorded presentation she offered)
Burt Rutan (no reply)
John Kehr (no reply)
David Stockwell (no reply)
Jo Nova (undecided)
Dr. David Evans (no reply)
Zeke Hausfather, BEST (undecided)
Invited but declined:
Dr. Walt Meir, NSIDC (declined)
Dr. Roger Pielke Sr. (conflicting commitments prevent appearance)
Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. (declined but offered supplemental materials)
Bill McKibben (declined due to other commitments)
There are still a few slots open. For those on the opposite side of the debate, as well as those on the skeptic side we invite you to participate, and welcome slide and narrative presentations from 15 minutes to 1 hour in length.
For questions or to request a time slot, please use the contact form if you will be able to participate. Given that Mr. Gore wants to sell the American public on ‘dirty weather’, which we know is an act of desperation, unsupported by the current state of the science (see this Nature editorial on the lack of linkage between climate and extreme weather) your voice will be particularly important.
If you cannot participate live during that time, we can arrange to pre-record the segment and play it at the appropriate time on November 14th or 15th. All that is required is a functional webcam (with headset preferred for best audio quality) A Skype account, and a short PowerPoint presentation or video clip.
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Contact WUWT here: http://wattsupwiththat.com/about-wuwt/contact-2/
Excellent news! – also congratulations and a big helping of thanks to your donor. Looking forward to it.
And yes, where is Willis? And Smokey?
Hi Anthony. I know you’re probably busy getting everything lined up, but if you have time, you may want to set up a 2 – 3 minute video introducing the event, the participants and some of the items that will be covered. If you posted that to YouTube and linked it here, we could all share that video as an announcement through social media to get it in front of more people. I, as I’m sure many others, would be glad to share that video on Twitter and Facebook. This needs to be in front of a lot of people and hopefully the intro would have some of the “Why” weather is simply weather and not global warming.
MSNBC just showed a shot of Sandy and made some idiotic statement about right-wingers trying to keep people in the dark about this “massive” climate change created hurricane. What people should hear is the global warming crowd want people in the dark, literally, and storms have happened like this many times in history.
Thanks for everything you do!
D Böehm says:
October 29, 2012 at 2:05 pm
richardK,
Funding courtesy of Big Oil and the Koch Bros.
/sarc
That’s what I mean. Head the crap off before “It” becomes the story.
Anthony and Co. will of course do a bang-up job (great line-up) and it will be a real treat, but let’s not forget to thank the donor who made this possible. Thank you! Your generosity will benefit many people all over the world.
Congratulations Anthony and many many thanks to your sponsor.
I would love to see a debate on a specific topic, for example the so called 97% of scientists etc.
Another might be the false analogy arguement. 98 doctors say you have cancer etc.
These arguements are so easily disproved but it would be great to have the debates available.
Might be a little off topic, but here is a list of ALGORE investments and federal subsidies:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/decision2012/gores-green-investments/2012/10/10/03612904-1340-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_graphic.html
ALGORE is just a billion dollar “Sham Wow” hawker
Wow, amazing. What about Spencer?
Anthony, I highly recommend you invite scifi writer David Brin. He’s an astrophysicist and a warming alarmist and loves to hear himself talk.
congrats to all involved.
any possibility that u could intersperse with a few worthwhile documentaries, e.g. “the great global warming swindle”.
Have you considered inviting Al Gore himself? He would no doubt decline, but I suspect about 8 hours into his own 24-hour project he would realize all his viewers have hit the “snooze” button and he’d have a bigger audience on WUWT-TV.
How about some of the other heavy-hitters on the AGW side — Barbara Streisand, Madonna, Rosie O’Donnel?
Dear John Constable of Renewable Energy Foundation:
I thought I would let you know that there is an opportunity on WUWT to submit a small presentation.
He has issued a call for research on the science behind AGW, and although I do not know if he will address renewable energy, I think you would make a wonderful contribution to the subject.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/29/announcement-wuwt-tv-to-counter-al-gores-24-hours-of-climate-reality-on-november-14th-and-15th/
Warm regards,
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http://www.ref.org.uk/press-releases
Hi Anthony,
Perhaps approaches could also be made to Dr. Bob Carter, Dr. Vincent Gray and Mr. David Archibald. And what about Dr. Timothy Ball and Dr. Benny Peiser?
Greg Beasley
(Prospect NSW)
Sorry about your hearing loss Mr. Watts. It does, however, explain a lot. JP
I second Bob Carter.
How about a few Aussies like Tim Flannery or David Karoly? Tim is a well experienced TV personality – it might be interesting to ask him some more penetrating questions than what he gets on the ABC and see how he answers them?
Will Piers Corbyn be proved correct?
way cool…
What a world class line up! I agree with a poster above that a few contributions from Dellers would be good.
Also, it might be a good idea to approach this whole broadcast with the idea of editing the highlights down to a 90 minute movie… a, sort-of “Convenient Truth”.
If you need any screen graphics (static) for the broadcast, I’d be glad to help.
Anthony,
That should be: “Dr. Sebastian Lüning (Author of Die kalte Sonne) and not “Dr. Sebastian Luning (Author of Die Kalt Sonne)”
Typo: it’s Donna Laframboise not Le… SUPER cool… I hope the 24h will be saved somewhere and be played back at will.
How about Henrik Svensmark & Jasper Kirkby?
See if there is any one who understands what the old people of Chaco Canyon of New Mexico were doing trying to track the sun and moon cycles. Some chance they too needed long term knowledge of the weather as they lived out in it for 10,000’s of years.
The rocks of the sun, moon cycles.
Without knowledge of the long term weather patterns could be you would end up with the whole of a people starving to death. Or they could learn of when to seek better climate some where else.
Those new here do not have all the understanding and knowing.
I’d watch an interview with Willis Eschenbach, on any topic you or he chose, but especially if you went into a detailed discussion of his theory of how water (the hydrology cycle) and especially large tropical storms serve as a built in closed loop regulator of the world wide energy balance. You need to interview more engineers, people who have practical insight and understand the magnitude of contributing factors, than strictly “specialists”. We want Willis, we want Willis . . . .
Murry Salby would be nice also, he did an excellent presentation here: http://youtu.be/ZVCps_SwD5w
Thanks, Anthony, you’re my favorite Republican operative!
You could also try to get Will Alexander of South Africa for your program.
IanM